ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,063, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Reach Surgical Inc. (Tianjin, China).
"Surgical instrument" was invented by Rongxuan Feng (Tianjin, China), Kai Wang (Tianjin, China) and Yafei Jiang (Tianjin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a handle portion; an elongated shaft extending from the handle portion to a distal side; an end effector; and an joint assembly, a articulating mechanism and a lockout assembly, the lockout assembly comprises a first lock member and a second lock member, the first lock member is operated to selectively lock a bending operation of the articulating mechanism, and the first...